RIP Robert Loggia

[Smallpotatoes]

Oscar-Nominated Actor Robert Loggia Dies at 85

I always thought he was a really good actor.

 

[DanOregon]

So great in Jagged Edge.

 

[JC]

Was he in Canadian Bacon?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Damn, I might be the only poster old enough to remember watching him as Elfego Baca on Walt Disney. I sure remember T.H.E. Cat. Loggia was a smoothly handsome dude when young.

 

[Songbird]

Weiland, Loggia, ...

 

[Baron Scicluna]

He was fun as Tom Hanks' boss in Big. Also had a good role in Independence Day, and a bunch of other films.

RIP

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Oh, and Vigoda just says hello.

 

[LongTimeListener]

A Mizzou J-School alum who was fond of saying he got a BJ at Mizzou (which would have been no small feat in 1951!).

Also his Minute Maid ad is for my money one of the all-time product endorsement spots. "If you say so, Mister Loggia!"

 

[Chef2]

Let us pray.

 

[Batman]

R, as in Robert Loggia.
I, as in "I can't believe it, it's Robert Loggia!"
P, as in "People love Robert Loggia."

 

[mpcincal]

Just to add to the movie resume, I saw "Necessary Roughness" on Netflix a few days ago where he played, well, himself as an assistant coach. He was pretty great in that too.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Agreed.

 

[BDC99]

But he was not in The Client.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Not a Goddam thing has gone right, goddamit!

 

[bigpern23]

Frank Lopez in Scarface. That has to be the first role mentioned in a Robert Loggia RIP thread. Has to be.

 

[BDC99]

He's one of those guys I've probably seen in 100 things and I can't peg one, even after looking through his credits. Scarface, I suppose, since I've seen that several times.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Now he plays chopsticks on a giant keyboard in the toy store called Heaven.

 

[ChrisLong]

He was the uniformed military guy who was always with the President in Independence Day. "Tell the world how to bring those sons of ******* down."

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Was he in Canadian Bacon?

Don't believe he was. I saw him in Big, Necessary Roughness, SOB (one of my favorite movies) and some underground boxing movie in the mid-90s (I think it was called Gladiator and also starred Brian Denehy.

 

[Bradley Guire]

I own that Gladiator. It's brilliant. My favorite Loggia role is the asshole father-in-law to Stallone in Over the Top.